Wild West Tech

Episode 1

Revenge Tech

Tue, Sep 13, 2005

In the west revenge was handled by the person wanting revenge as the law or absence of law left no other recourse and revenge acts were usually ignored by the law. Methods of revenge range from beatings to death. The Reno gang in Indiana beat and turned over to the law two men who copied their new crime of robbing railroads. "Liver eating" Johnson ate the livers of the Crow Indians he killed in revenge for the murder of his pregnant wife. After over 40 killings, the Crow tribe made peace with him by making him a member of their tribe. Jim Riley used his six shooters to take revenge for the shooting of his lone friend, the marshal, resulting in several dead in Newton, Kansas. Although the marshal survived, his brother had a gun and knife duel to the death for both men with the man who shot th e marshal. A up and coming gunslinger wanted revenge for the killing of a relative by a man who was considered too crazy to fight in the civil war. After a day of befriending each other the gunslinger was shot and killed himself over dinner with the man. A company enforcer was shot by an employee who was an outlaw but survives. The outlaw was hung for the crime but survived when friends cut him down. This resulted in the tortured death of the outlaw by shooting the fingers off before the enforcer killed him. A man poisons a wedding cake for revenge but was hung himself in revenge for the poisonings. Finally, a woman changed to life as a man to kill the man who murdered her husband. Although she finally wounded him, he died from yellow fever.